Category: Radio Free Blogistan

  • Saddam is caught and my server is down

    Hmm, TypePad munged the first few characters of my entry, turning “Boo-hoo. Biggest blog-news day of the war…” into this: …that’s even weirder, now the munged stuff just disappeared. The post was supposed to say this: Boo-hoo. Biggest blog-news day of the war in Iraq so far and my server that hosts most of my…

  • DailyKos's community blogging

    DailyKos is a hugely popular left-leaning political weblog with a very active comment section. It originally ran on Movable Type but developed growing pains as the readership (and commentariat) expanded. A few months ago, Kos transitioned to Scoop, the open source codebase that underlies kuro5hin, is designed for community participation and collaborative filtering of content…

  • Drupal getting major overhaul

    Looks like the upcoming version of Drupal with have some significant improvements: The Drupal developers have been little busy bees ever since the new development branch has been created about 1.5 months ago. Those that do not track the CVS commit messages or read the mailing lists might wonder what we have been up to,…

  • Rebranding RSS and syndication

    Your grandmother doesn’t do HTTP and she doesn’t know from XHTML. You didn’t buy her a computer so she could access SMTP and IMAP and POP. No, it took words like internet, web, and e-mail to help people who hadn’t been reading William Gibson make sense of this strange new world. Bloggers and people who…

  • New TypePad features

    Everything TypePad announcesthree new features for TypePad, namely additional sorting options for TypeLists (blogroll-like lists), the ability to upload a zipped folder of photos (a vast improvement over the tedious, one-at-a-time 15-at-most original method), and the ability to password-protect your entire TypePad site. (via Buzzmachine)

  • All things must pass

    In my blog book (still looking for a publisher, note), I tried to address the whole weblog lifecycle, from setup and launch, through the daily routine of writing the blog and occasionally reorganizing it, down to how to end a blog. Yes, stop blogging. Some blogs die. They are attached to a project that has…